packed lunch ideas for DofE

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DD needs to rltake 2 days worth of packed lunches with her on her 2 day trek.

cool bags are not allowed.

day 1 - I think she can just about get away with sandwiches etc

day 2 - I'm really stumped for ideas. ham sandwiches won't be possible as great risk of food poisoning, as with anything fresh and perishable really.

any experienced d of e'ers out there who can advise.

they've worked out dinners and snacks between them so it's just DDs lunches I need to sort.

I took oat cakes and salami and cheese (like a baby bell type of thing) and an apple. It should be fine. It will be at most 30 hours from fridge to eating.

Ryvita/ crispbread/ naked wrap with a tin / container of tuna mayo or similar? Make up sandwich in the morning or on the go? Going through it the first time this year too.

Wraps
John west tuna meal (In plastic tray)
Dried fruit
Cereal bars
Pepperami
Small plastic tub of jam/peanut butter
Chocolate filled pancakes
Boiled sweets for morale

"Long life" choc au pain/croissant/danish.
Cheese straws
Cereal bars

Pasta salad.

Bread, cheese, peperami, dried fruit, Snickers bars. Instant noodles (the square kind) and angel delight with powdered milk for tea.

DS just took lots of pasta for both bronze and silver. Cooked it up on the morning and had it cold for lunch then cooked and had it hot for dinner. I believe others took sauces and he shared those at dinner but he really wasn't that bothered and would have happily just had the pasta.
He also took a couple of tins of rice pudding.

Jam sandwiches or peanut butter if no allergy sufferers around, cereal bars, apples, bananas. Dried fruit.

Kids often choose to graze whilst walking, rather than have a sit down lunch, so plenty of snacky things that can be grabbed from a rucksack works better than a traditional packed lunch.

Muesli or granola? A good quality one that tastes nice without milk.

Crackers sandwiched together with peanut butter or honey. They don't go dry like bread.

Small pieces of cheese/ grated cheese.

Those small individual plastic pots of baked beans.

I'm a DofE assessor. Too many kids bring tins ( heavy) or plastic (we try to teach environmental impact). Perfect lunch is oatcakes, nutbutter and banana ( if no allergies). Plenty decent snacks: raw nuts, homemade muffins/ flapjack ( made by kids before they go), fruit, veg sticks, hummus (1st day).

Breakfast it's important to get a hot drink- tea/ hot choc or porridge ( can be made with water and some fruit) it makes a huge difference to energy/ morale the next morning.

Perfect evening meal is something like gnocchi ( super fast to cook and filling) taking tomato based sauce premade with olives, herbs, spinach etc.

Lunches:

+1 for small snacky things they can graze on whilst walking.

I would pack up something like this for each day, check the total calorie content and decide accordingly:

• Babybell or two
• Peperami or two
• Carrot or celery (whole carrot lasts better than cut up carrot sticks) or sugar snap peas or baby corm. Some kind of firm vegetable or two.
• Banana or apple (have to be careful packing the banana)
• Cracker, ryvita or oatcake 'sandwiches' with peanut butter (and jam!) filling
• Emergency cereal or energy bar type thing
• Bag of trail mix or sweets or something for morale.

Huel bars are pretty good. The most nutritionally balanced and the least sugar of any commercial bar you will find, and each one is 250 calories.

Breakfast - porridge sachet(s) with a handful of added nuts and chocolate chips, or a boil in the bag 'all day breakfast' meal from one of the specialist camping meal providers. Heavier but totally delicious!

Hot choc or a cappuccino sachet or something is nice for the morning.

Dinner - something like batcholers pasta n sauce mac and cheese one, and take some chorizo to dice up and add. Or 2x Mug Shot sachets. That's about 500 calories plus the chorizo.

Plus a brownie bar or something for pudding.

A cup-a-soup is a nice moral booster to have whilst you wait for dinner to cook.

I wouldn't be carrying pesto in a jar, or tomato sauces in tins or sachets. I also wouldn't be carrying gnocchi as that is heavy. Dried pasta is much lighter. Smaller pasta cooks quicker.

Bronze is a bit shit because its all new to you and you probably haven't made good equipment choices yet. Bronze kids always carry too much stuff.

Quick, easy to cook and tasty carby food is good for dinner.